Live blog: Beer can (and phone) throwing van passenger “hit by the karma train; Look launch Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic pedal, Greg Van Avermaet’s golden Giant; Know your Yates brother; Jess Varnish to appeal employment tribunal ruling + more
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Jess Varnish to appeal employment tribunal ruling
Back in January, Jess Varnish failed in her attempt to prove she was an employee of British Cycling and UK Sport. The judge concluded that her funding was more akin to a university grant.
The BBC reports that she is now challenging the ruling relating to British Cycling. A judge will decide whether the appeal can proceed.
Varnish’s lawyer, Simon Fenton, said: “The appeal tribunal has been asked to overturn the original judgment and to decide that Ms Varnish was an employee.”
Fenton will argue that the tribunal was wrong that the services and benefits Varnish received from British Cycling were not remuneration; and says the organisation “failed to explain how the work performed by a professional football player is different from the work performed by Jess for British Cycling”.
FiftyOne to supply bikes to Cycling Ireland
Irish custom carbon bike brand FiftyOne has revealed it will be supplying bikes to Cycling Ireland for the next two seasons, and we reckon they’ll be the envy of the peloton with these beautifully painted bikes.
The colour scheme is very much a celebration of Ireland with the lovely green to white fade and shamrocks decorating the colour-matched stem and rear stays. And if anyone needs reminding, Ireland is printed big and bold on the inside of the fork blades.
They’ll have a choice of rim or disc brake bikes and be equipped with SRAM Red eTap groupsets with Enve wheels.
Simon Yates won the Paris-Nice time trial
Bit bizarre, but he says he’s been doing a lot of work on his time trialling and he also had the best of the conditions having lost 20 minutes in the crosswinds earlier in the race.
@SimonYatess for the win , @kwiato still in , here is the best of stage 5#ParisNice pic.twitter.com/jHsolZGER1
— Paris-Nice (@ParisNice) March 14, 2019
Motorist who "inadvertently" hit cyclist while trying to hurl abuse at him avoids jail sentence
One of the officers said "this guy just got hit by the karma train"
PSA: Don’t drink beer in a car.
But if you do, don’t throw it at a #bikedc cyclist with @Cycliq cams front & rear.
But if you do, don’t drop your phone.
But if you do, don’t come back for it.
But if you do, don’t pull out a knife, even just to show you don’t intend to use it. pic.twitter.com/8zQ6HmR7kr— Andrew Heining (@andrewjh) March 13, 2019
'Chateau' for pollution...
Great to see that Team Sky Pro Cycling Team’s new sponsors Ineos are already well ahead in one GC (general contest)!!! They’ve got the best CO2 Max Test results in Britain!!!! Chateau!!! pic.twitter.com/BkFJfViXOr
— UK Cycling Expert (@ukcyclingexpert) March 15, 2019
Glorious work by UK Cycling Expert, although this time not in any way a parody unfortunately…
Greg Van Avermaet's new gold aero bike
Greg Van Avermaet is riding this new bike at the Tirreno Adriatico and it’s fair to say we’re just a bit jealous!
It’s a custom painted Giant Propel Advanced SL with the gold colour obviously in honour of his Olympic success.
Paris-Roubaix pave get some TLC
We reported the other day about how muddy the Paris-Roubaix pave was, but it looks like they’ve been getting a bit of TLC this week.
Tirreno-Adriatico a bit shaky on which Yates is leading the race
It’s actually Adam in the lead. Simon’s riding Paris-Nice.
La Maglia Azzurra @SimonYatess #TirrenoAdriatico @NamedSport pic.twitter.com/EbJmzg0HWG
— Tirreno Adriatico (@TirrenAdriatico) March 15, 2019
15-year-old sentenced for three bike thefts on the Bristol to Bath cycle path
Look launches Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic Pedal
Look has unveiled its new Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic pedals which Romain Bardet will use for the first time on Stage 7 of Paris-Nice tomorrow.
The new model, made in France, sees ceramic bearings used for the first time in a production pedal, according to Look. Ceramic bearings are designed to reduce friction and increase power transfer and reliability.
Look claims an 18% reduction in friction on the bearing, and a bearing life that’s four to six times longer than that of steel bearings.
The Look Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic is fitted with a chromoly axle and weighs a claimed 110g. The RRP is €189.90. We’ve asked for a UK price.
"Strade Bianche is the coolest professional bike race in the world"
Cool video from last weekend’s Strade Bianche to end the working week with.
Where's today's Leave V Remain poll?
In case you’re wondering, after a lengthy debate the road.cc team held a non binding indicative vote and decided to extend today’s deadline for coming up with a Leave V Remain question until next week. When it may return as the People’s Extend or Revoke poll… depending on how negotiations go.
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my thoughts exactly...I wonder how that approach is working, with motor vehicle drivers...🤔
I do not wish to diminish the personal tragedy, but one never hear calls for pedestrians or even hikers to wear clothing with integrated lightening rods.
RE Andy Burnam / Heidi Alexander - this is the best thing in many ways - set an example (even if currently it leads to lots of online name-calling). And imagine some of the political alternatives! The folks in the apparently second-placed party seem incredibly unlikely to be doing so. And even the current "new Greens" seem less interested in ... y'know, environmental things. OTOH I wish Heidi could be bolder. And I fear that like anyone ambitious enough to get to the top (exception B Johnson - well, I guess there was the Corbyn bicycle...) Burnam will be trimming his transport policy sails to fit the wind (should that be "bunker-fuel-burning engines"?)
@mattsccm Bull bars aren't banned, they just have to conform to regulations so they are deformable or have plates that allow crumple give on contact, rather than rigid steel bars that can smash into pedestrians and cyclists with no give at all, catch them and drag them under the wheels. If you think that's a problem, do one. Why should who is responsible for a collision remove the responsibility of people driving a tonne of machinery on the road from having safety features to at least mitigate some of the effects of a collision?
I'd be willing to bet that's lazy use of stock photography rather than deliberate misinformation, but the result is still the same.
@smallbeer You obviously don't realise how many bulls there are wandering around Chelsea, in and out of the china shops, that he needs to protect his Range Rover from.
I agree, it's bloody 'elf and safety overreach, can't help some people, I put some meat, sorry, neat decoration on the front of mine and the polis were round poking their noses in like that (mind you, that was a mistake...) (etc)
@mattsccm "Think also 4wd bull bars being banned for no legitimate reason." OK, now I regret engaging with you, you sad little troll.
@Backladder Did they fail to press SHIFT? Did they mean 95%? If so, again, citation needed.
@mattsccm The MIB exists to compensate victims of accidents caused by the drivers/riders of uninsured and untraced *motor vehicles*, not pedestrians or cyclists. So the MIB would have rightly refused any claim by the victim here. If the at-fault pedestrian had no third party liability insurance that would've covered this incident, the victim could have pursued a claim against her estate. The 'optics' (terrible word but it's become common parlance, sadly) of a cyclist pursuing a claim against a dead lady's estate, however, might have made it inadvisable.
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CO2 Max? If they release
CO2 Max? If they release more CO2 than any other company, perhaps they deserve to have a chateau dropped on them. Chateau!
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1714736.INEOS_under_fire_for_its_carbon_footprint_/
Seems like Brailsford doesn’t
Seems like Brailsford doesn’t care who he tries to sell his soul to, so long as the spondolicks support his master plan.
EDF may make a better bedfellow as that may confuse his French “supporters”.
Butty wrote:
Sports sponsorship is invariably provided by organisations who need to improve their image. Drug, oil, mining or (in days gone by) tobacco companies…
It could be worse, he could have to arse-lick a repressive Middle Eastern regime for dollars. A big cash injection is the sole reason the 2016 Worlds were held in the spectatorless, flat desert of Qatar.